February 6, 2007 Newsletter
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February 6, 2007
The PushToTest Newsletter
- TestMaker 4.4.1 Available For Download
- InfoQ's SOA Developer Conference, March 12-16, London
- TestMaker 5 In Development for Spring 2007 Release
- Frank Cohen Speaking At Performance Testing Conference
- New Web Site Coming in March 2007
- FastSOA (the book) Now Available
- SOA Performance Kit Now Available
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* New TestMaker 4.4.1 Available For Download
TestMaker 4.4.1 is a minor bug fix release. From this release forward TestMaker requires Java 1.5 or greater. It provides a workaround for servers that do not correctly implement RFC 2116 for HTTP redirect commands. It solves a problem in the start-up script for Windows NT and 2000 users. It solves bugs in the agentbase.py support library for responses with no return parameters or invalid image tags, and now allows optional parameters to set the content-type of a POST. It also solves a problem where XSTest ran out of memory on long running load tests.
TestMaker version 4.4.1 is available for free download at:
http://downloads.pushtotest.com/TestMaker44.zip
Release notes available at:
http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/vreleasenotes
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* QCon London, UK, March 12-16, 2007
PushToTest is a media sponsor for Qcon, a major new software development conference. Qcon will be in London, UK, March 12-16 and features 2 days of tutorials and three full conferences days with 70 sessions presented by over 50 speakers including Martin Fowler, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmers), Spring creator Rod Johnson, LINQ creator Erik Meijer, and more. QCon aims to become a major annual event providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities, with tracks on architecture & design, Ajax, Investment Bank architectures, and Usability.
http://qcon.infoq.com/
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* TestMaker 5 In Development for Spring 2007 Release
PushToTest funded professional development of TestMaker 5. We expect the new software to be available in Spring 2007, with early release versions available in late March. The new product has several major new features that are explained in a specification document that you may download and view at:
http://downloads.pushtotest.com/tm5/TM5_Specification.pdf
The document is 444K in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. It is not too late for you to comment on the plan at dev@lists.pushtotest.com.
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* Frank Cohen Speaking At Performance Testing Conference
PushToTest's founder Frank Cohen will lead a session at the Software Test and Performance Conference (STPCON.)
"Solving XML Performance Problems in SOA Environments"
Abstract of the session: Software developers, QA technicians and IT managers are confronted with a challenge: Service Oriented Architecture that relies on XML for message-driven interoperability frequently delivers awful performance and scalability. Yet the benefits of rapid application development, reduced system integration costs, and better governance are enticing. In this presentation, Frank Cohen shows software quality and development professionals the major trends in play that impact the use of XML in an enterprise IT system and how a new base of computing technology using Repository, ESB, Master Data Management (MDM), and SOA practices deliver a solution. Frank will show specific examples of tests and use cases to determine scalability and performance profiles of these SOA systems.
Software Test & Performance Conference
April 17-19 in San Mateo, California, USA
http://www.stpcon.com
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* New Web Site Coming in March 2007
PushToTest will renovate its Web site and services in March 2007. Look for new downloads, new articles, easier navigation, a new bug tracking system, and faster performing Web pages on new server equipment.
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* FastSOA, Solve SOA Performance Problems
The seminal book by PushToTest's Frank Cohen on why software developers run into scalability and performance problems when using SOA, Web Services, and XML is now available. FastSOA explains the problem and presents new architecture that uses native XML technology to solve the problems.
Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1.5 transactions per second (TPS) on expensive modern servers. This is a disaster enterprises, organizations, or institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen's FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture.
http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/fastsoabook.html
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* SOA Performance Kit Now Available
A free open-source comprehensive tool kit showing the performance and developer productivity implications of implementing Web Service and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on commercial and open-source application servers, including BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Oracle Application Server, and JBoss.
Software architects and developers make choices of XML parsing techniques, service libraries, encoding techniques, and protocols when building Service Oriented Architecture (SOA.) Each choice has an impact on scalability and performance of the finished service.
Learn about and download the SOA Scalability and Developer Productivity Knowledge Kit and read the performance test results at:
http://www.pushtotest.com/Downloads/kits/soakit.html
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